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Performance and Analysis of OFDM Signal Using Matlab

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Anil Kumar1, Ankit Mayur2, Arvind Kr. Jaiswal3
1, 2 3

(Faculty ECE, PG student, H.O.D, ECE Department, SHIATS-DU Allahabad India 211007)

Abstract: Multi-carrier modulation is an attractive technique for fourth generation .OFDM is based on
multicarrier modulation technique. In OFDM system the bit stream is divided into many different sub
channels. An efficient and distortionless scheme for peak power reduction in OFDM is proposed. In this
paper, a set of mapping where the actual transmit signal is selected. From this set of signal reduced
PAPR. Simulation results are shown. The lowest PAPR is compared with conventional work. It is also
compared BER to SNR and best result is achieved.
Keywords: BER, IFFT, OFDM, PAPR, Phase Rotation, QAM, QPSK, SLM etc.

I. INTRODUCTION
Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) has been recently seen rising popularity in
wireless application. OFDM properties like high spectral efficiency, robustness to channel fading, immunity to
impulse interference, uniform average spectral density, and capacity to handle very strong echoes and less nonlinear distortion, immunity to inter-symbol interference. The main disadvantages of OFDM systems is that it
exhibits a high peak to average power ratio, namely the peak value of some of the transmitted signal could be
much larger than the typical values. To reduce PAPR, many techniques have been proposed, such as clipping,
partial time sequence, interleaving, nonlinear companding transforms, hadamard transforms, SLM technique etc.
The selected mapping method (SLM) provides good performance for PAPR reduction, and this requirement
usually results in high computational complexity. Several techniques have been proposed based on lowcomplexity selected mapping schemes for Peak-to-Average Power Ratio reduction in OFDM Systems.
In recent years OFDM is employed in Digital Television Broadcasting (such as the digital ATV
Terrestrial Broadcasting), European Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) and Digital Video Broadcasting
Terrestrial (DVB-T), and numerous Wireless Local Area Networks (e.g. IEEE 802.11a operating at 5 GHz) and
European Telecommunications Standard Institute (ETSI) Broadband Radio Access Networks (BRAN)s High
Performance Radio Local Area Network (HIPERLAN) Type-2 standard.
The organization of this paper is as follows. Section II presents OFDM signal model and formulae,
Section III presents the problem of PAPR and algorithm of least PAPR. Section IV presents the figure and table
of simulation results. Section V presents conclusion of simulation results.

II. ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (OFDM)

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing is a frequencydivision multiplexing (FDM) scheme
utilized as a digital multicarrier modulation method. A large number of closely spaced orthogonal subcarriers
is used to carry data. The data is divided into several parallel streams of channels, one for each subcarriers.
Each sub carrier is modulated with a conventional modulation scheme (i.e. QPSK) at a low symbol rate,
maintaining total data rates similar to the conventional single carrier modulation schemes in the same
bandwidth. Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing is a special form of multicarrier modulation which is
particularly suited for transmission over a dispersive channel. Here the different carriers are orthogonal to each
other that is they are totally independent of one another. This is achieved by placing the carrier exactly at null in
modulation spectra of each other.
Two periodic signals are orthogonal when the integral of their product over one period is equal to zero.
For the case of continuous time:

(2nf0t)

cos (2mf0t) dt = 0
For the case of discrete time:
2
2
1
cos
dt = 0
=0

Where, m n in both cases.

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Fig. 1: The area under a sine and a cosine wave over one period is always zero.

Fig 2: The area under a sine wave multiplied by its own harmonic is always zero.
The main concept in OFDM is orthogonality of the sub-carriers. Since the carriers are all sine/cosine wave, we
know that area under one time period of a sine or a cosine wave is zero.
Let's take a sine wave of frequency m and multiply it by a sinusoid (sine or a cosine) of a frequency n, where both
m and n are integers. The integral or the area under this product is given by
F (t) = sin (mwt)* sin (nwt)

(3)

By the simple trigonometric relationship, this is equal to a sum of two cosine of frequencies (m-n) and (m+n).
=

1
2

cos

2 1
cos
0 2

0 - 0

1
2

cos
( + )

2 1
cos
0 2

= 0
These two components are each a sinusoid/cosine, so the integral is equal to zero over one period.

Fig.3: OFDM Transmitter System

In figure 3, IFFT is performed on the modulated signal which is further processed by passing through a
parallel toserial converter. In order to avoid ISI we provide a cyclic prefix to the signal. The Cyclic Prefix or
Guard Interval is a periodic extension of the last part of an OFDM symbol that is added to the front of the
symbol in the transmitter, and is removed at the receiver before demodulation.
The cyclic prefix has to two important benefits
1 .The cyclic prefix acts as a guard interval. It eliminates the inter symbol interference from the previous
symbol.
2 .It acts as a repetition of the end of the symbol thus allowing the linear convolution of a frequency selective
multipath channel to be modeled as circular convolution which in turn may be transform to the frequency
domain using a discrete fourier transform. This approach allow a simple frequency domain processing such as
channel estimation and quality.
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the received data is first made to pass through a low pass filter and the cyclic prefix is removed. FFT of the
signal is done after it is made to pass through a serial to parallel converter. A demodulator is used, to get
back the original signal.

III. THE PAPR OF OFDM SYSTEM

The PAPR of OFDM is defined as the ratio between the maximum power and the average power, The
PAPR of the OFDM signal X (t) is defined as
PAPR =

p peak
p average

2
0< ()
1
2

()
0

(4)

Presence of large number of independently modulated sub-carriers in an OFDM system the peak value
of the system can be very high as compared to the average of the whole system. This ratio of the peak to average
power value is termed as Peak-to-Average Power Ratio. Coherent addition of N signals of same phase produces
a peak which is N times the average signal.
The major disadvantages of a high PAPR are* Increased complexity in the analog to digital and digital to analog converter.
* Reduction is efficiency of RF amplifiers.
The main objective of this technique is to generate a set of data blocks at the transmitter end which represent the
original information and then to choose the most favorable block among them for transmission. Let us consider
an OFDM system with N orthogonal subcarriers. A data block is a vector composed of N complex symbols ,
each of them representing modulation symbol transmitted over a subcarrier. X is multiplied element by
element with U vector composed of N complex numbers, defined so that , where |.| denotes the modulus
operator. Each resulting vector which, produced after IDFT, a corresponding OFDM signal is given by
Su(t) =

1
2
=0 ,

(5)

Where T is the OFDM signal duration and f = 1/T is the sub-carrier spacing.
Among the modified data blocks, the one with the lowest PAPR is selected for transmission. The amount of
PAPR reduction for SLM depends on the number of phase sequences U and the design of the phase sequences.
In SLM technique, firstly the input information is divided into OFDM data block X, which consists of M
symbols, by the serial-to parallel (S/P) conversion and then data block X is multiplied carrier wise with each one
of the w different phase sequences () , resulting in a set of w different OFDM data block
( ) = [0 () ,1 ( ) ,1 ( ) ]^T
Where, = , m = 0, 1, , M 1, w = 1, 2, , w.
=
= [0 ( ),1 () ,1 () ]^T

(6)
(7)
(8)

Then all w alternative data blocks are transformed into time domain to get transmit OFDM symbol =IFFT
{ () }.
The transmit sequence = ( ) , where = arg { max |x (w)|}, is selected. The information on the
selected phase sequence must be transmitted to the receiver. Where m = 0,1,2,3 .M-1 .w = 0, 1, 2 W,
to make w phase rotated OFDM data blocks. All w phase rotated OFDM data blocks represented the same
information as the unmodified OFDM data block Provided that the phase sequence is known. After applying the
SLM technique, the complex envelope of the transmitted OFDM signal becomes
1

2
X (t) = 1
, 0 tMT
-------------5
=0
Here, MT is the duration of an OFDM data block. Output data of the lowest PAPR is selected to transmit.

Algorithm for least PAPR:

1)

Firstly 16 sinusoidal subcarriers are taken. These are available subcarriers (QPSK Modulation)
assuming all one positive.
X1 =sin ((2*180*100*t) +w)
X2 =sin ((2*180*200*t) +w)

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X3 =sin ((2*180*300*t) +w)
.
.
.
X16= sin ((2*180*1600*t) +w)
These subcarriers are orthogonal to each other because in general for all integers m and n, sinmx, sinny,
cosmx, cosmy are orthogonal to each other. These frequencies are called harmonics.
2) Giving these entire subcarrier phase shift(w) 0 to 90.
3) Now sum of all these entire subcarriers sum = x1+x2+x3+x4++x15+x16.
(9)
4) Calculate the PAPR according to the formula given in equation (6)
For comparison of BER and SNR :
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)

No. of Carriers: 64
coding used: Convolutional coding
Single frame size: 96 bits
Total no. of Frames: 100
Modulation: 16-QAM
No. of Pilots: 4
Cylic Extension: 25%(16)

IV. SIMULATION RESULT

Simulation is carried with MATLAB 7.8 to evaluate the performance of the different phase rotation on
OFDM Signal, for reducing PAPR, BER and SNR

Fig 4: PAPR against different phase shift

From the simulation result we see that if we give all these 16 orthogonal subcarriers with phase rotation (w) of 0
to 90 we get the minimum PAPR at phase rotation 11 as shown in figure 4.The PAPR value at 11 degree and 55
degree is 4.5292dB and 4.9379 dB respectively are least PAPR.

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Fig 5: OFDM signal with phase shift 11.

The resulting OFDM signal is shown in figure: 5, After 11 degree Maximum PAPR is obtain at 55 degree
(PAPR = 4.9379dB) then 80 degree (PAPR= 5.8447dB)
Table: Gain for PAPR of different phase .
SYSTEM
PAPR without phase shift
PAPR with phase shift 11
PAPR with phase shift 55
PAPR with phase shift 80

Max. PAPR in dB
29.29
4.5292
4.9379
8.447

Fig 6: Comparison of BER and SNR

In figure 6, compairing the SNR (dB) and the error in bit rate(BER).
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Table SNR and BER
SNR
BER
0
0.4672
2
0.4321
6
0.3231
10
0.1505
14
0.003958
From the table above, as the SNR increases the BER decreases
V.

CONCLUSION

It is concluded that for improving efficiency of the Equipment (communication system) reducing
PAPR value of OFDM signal. So, in this paper we obtain a particular phase rotation value at which least PAPR
is obtain with the rising demand for more number of users on limited frequency spectrum in radio Mobile
communication, OFDM prove invaluable to fourth generation communication system and compare BER and
SNR for better future technologies and also prove invaluable to fourth generation communication system.

Acknowledgements
It is our sincere obligation to thank our well-wishers Dr. Anil Kumar, faculty of Electronics and
Communication Engineering. and Dr. A. K. Jaiswal, H.O.D. ,Electronics and Communication Engineering,
SHIATS-DU, Allahabad(U.P.) India.

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A. K. Jaiswal received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Science and Tech. Electronics & Radio Engg. from
Allahabad University of Allahabad(U.P.) in 1961 and 1963 respectively. He is now with the Department of
Electronics and Communication Engineering as Professor & Head of Department, SHIATS-DU, Allahabad.

Anil Kumar received the B.E. and M.tech degrees in Electronics & Communication Engineering and Micro
Electronics from D.D.V. Gorakhpur University ,Gorakhpur(U.P.) and BHU Varanasi (U.P.) in 1999 and 2005
respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from SHIATS-DU, Allahabad(U.P.). He is now in faculty of the department
of Electronics and Communication Engineering as Assistant Professor, SHIATS-DU, Allahabad

Ankit Mayur received B.Tech and M.Tech degrees in Electronics and Communication System Engineering
from V.B.S. Purvanchal University, Jaunpur(U.P.) and SHIATS-DU, Allahabad(U.P.) in 2012 and 2014

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